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The Vice President's camp alleged budget manipulation a day after prosecutors dropped three impeachment articles; the Senate President said nothing is being "dangled" and put the trial's cost at ₱330,763 a day.
On Day 34 of the impeachment trial, prosecutors laid bank records from eight banks beside the Vice President's SALN, while senators questioned CALE88 Foods, a firm co-owned by her husband whose paid-up capital is a fraction of the money that passed through it.
Duplicated projects, missing coordinates, and lump-sum listings turned up across eight categories of anomalies in the 2027 budget review — the same week senators noted that Acting Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon's one-year term technically ran out 24 days ago.
Senate Bill 2387, transmitted to Malacañang and sponsored by Sen. Francis "Chiz" Escudero, marks the second postponement of barangay and SK elections in two years — and election lawyer Romulo Macalintal, whose own Supreme Court case is now being cited against it, calls the timing no accident ahead of 2028.
From a four-year-late Davao bus project to a shelved EDSA busway, the government paid commitment fees on foreign loans for infrastructure that still isn't built — Gatchalian says DOTr needs to stop borrowing for projects that go nowhere.
Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian and accounts committee chair Panfilo Lacson both said using public funds for a private caterer outside the chamber's accredited provider would be improper, closing out a request Duterte's office had defended on security grounds.
Sen. Erwin Tulfo opened a Senate Energy Committee inquiry into a two-decade-old power law, and Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian joined in criticizing the Energy Regulatory Commission for failing to audit a rate spike that has pushed Philippine electricity prices above Singapore's.
Sen. Sherwin "Win" Gatchalian was formally elected Senate President at the June 17 special session called by President Marcos, ending a five-week leadership war after Sen. Joel Villanueva joined the majority to give it the 13 votes it had lacked — and after Alan Peter Cayetano, an hour before the vote, conceded the new bloc had the numbers.
Nine senators led by Alan Peter Cayetano filed a 97-page petition before the Supreme Court on June 16 seeking to nullify the June 3 session that installed Sherwin Gatchalian as Acting Senate President, arguing it lacked a quorum and was "engineered" by the Executive — one day before President Marcos convened Congress in a special session that the majority intends to use to formally reorganize the chamber.
Sen. Joel Villanueva — long seen as the swing vote that could formally unseat Alan Peter Cayetano — said on June 14 he will attend any special session President Marcos calls, while Sen. Panfilo Lacson said the majority bloc has prepared undisclosed "contingencies" in case Cayetano "makes a scene." Villanueva's own father, televangelist Eddie Villanueva, publicly told him to follow his conscience "not your friends."
